This CD is so shrill and ugly, but there in lies its beauty. And the retro RAVE touches are genious, especially if most of it was written in 2004. Psychic channel flow.

Sick lyrics, awesome beats. I like the theme as well. Five [thousand] stars!

This cd makes u wanna dance ~ synthpop/robotic/electro SUPREME!! U gotta hear this cd.....

http://electrocore.com/reviews/lemansdri.php Every imaginable form of vocal processing and distortion blasts forth from your speakers like some kind of robot holocaust, scares the shit out of you and makes you think you must have pressed the wrong button before the noise drops suddenly, the beat kicks in, and that oh-so-nice-and-funky electro groove makes you feel at home. And thus begins "Online Lover," track 1 on Disco Related Injury, the new full-length release from Los Angeles-based one-man-band LeMans aka Jam1sin. "Blogging my affections / And IMing my intentions," Jam1sin sneers in a way familiar to listeners of Coldlife In The Fastlane, the vocalist/producer's 2004 debut. Shamelessly over-the-top irony the track may be, "Online Lover's" bounce-factor is still on par with the most danceable of LeMans' back catalogue, if not a little above. But interlaced like a secret code within the DNA of the song are a few new and very notable touches which include Jam1sin's new fondness for synth distortion and female vocals. German female vocals. What guest vocalist Alison Pearl is singing is beyond me, but it sounds cool, and it's also an intriguing clue that LeMans might not be treating Industrial merely as window dressing on this ostensibly electro album. LeMans' relentless tongue-in-cheek dance party continues in "Boombox Chic," the first of the album's standout tracks. Featuring uncharacteristically femme fatale vocals from bubble-gum electropoppers Freezepop's Liz Enthusiasm, "Boombox Chic" is a charming love song to a great stereo disguised as a dark and sexy dancefloor hip-grinder. The pure, straight outta 1984 backing track is layered like a wedding cake and requires several listens to truly appreciate its rich flavor, but it will be the first song you come back to when you finish the album. Production-wise, "After Werk" probably best sums up what LeMans is going for with DRI. Keyboard ninja stars that fly passed you at totally random moments; a big phat bass-line thats waveform would probably make you seasick; hand claps, breaks, tings, bings, booms and seven other kinds of drums and percussion sounds fighting each other for dominance; and dueling vocals by Jam1sin and Trae-Ann (of MySpace heroines Electroboobies) make this song (co-produced by Barbaeu of Dirty Sanchez) an insurmountable obstacle on the dancefloor but a memorable session of aural sex for the headphones listener. "Industry Funktion" is the best song on the album, and it more than anything else on DRI perfectly exploits the criminally under-appreciated beauty of industrial music in the club scene by turning down the aggro and turning up the rhythm. The song is another amusing piece of nightlife mockery about a shallow, hot girl who goes to a trendy Hollywood nightclub looking get noticed and ends up getting snowed by a sleazy producer. It's also one of the only tracks in which Jam1sin permits his gift for melody to float to the surface of his thick, ambitious productions. The relative spaciousness of the song creates a quiet-to-loud dynamic you don't really hear on this record, which really propels the lyrics in more of a synthpop meets Wax Trax! fashion. Also, the song has "industry" in the title. Heh. "Thunderbolt Fire" and "El Presidente" fill out the middle of the record, and in every sense of the word "fill." While not a bad song, really, "Thunderbolt Fire" explores more or less the same lyrical landscape as the superior "Industry Funktion," and its lovely guitar parts are never really let out for air. "El Presidente" presents an attractive NIN-invoking drum pattern, but it doesn't really go anywhere and the lyrical content of the song ("As your president, I set the precedent / I'll do what I want, when I want...") clashes badly with the street-level club culture thumb-biting and pop culture references on the rest of the record. Every good album musician anticipates the anxiety of the listener and sequences their record accordingly. "Blindfolds," truly the album's standout track (it's the only instrumental), is perfectly placed in the track-list. Beautiful and melodic while remaining just dirty enough, the song brings you down into a comfortable new wave haze complete with Peter Hookish bass riffs. "Blindfolds" is the best instrumental early b-side New Order never wrote. Disco Related Injury concludes with the utterly danceable Private Investigation, a perfect summation of the styles and experiments in the record. Jam1sin's playing and singing is tighter here than perhaps ever before, and the track more than justifies its seven minute length with each new measure. I do not know what this song is about, however. Perhaps, as the lyrics suggest, it's simply a day in the life of a private detective. Getting calls, running around in the rain, all that film noir stuff. Maybe he's referencing a movie. Maybe LeMans is also the name of Jam1sin's detective firm. I don't know, but it rocks. You're going to love it.